KS2 · Spanish · Year 3
How is Sofía? Using 'está' to say how someone is today
Me and others: 'estar' for location and state
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Your learning goal
I can use a range of adjectives to understand how someone is feeling today.
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How is Sofía? Using 'está' to say how someone is today: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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I can use a range of adjectives to understand how someone is feeling today.
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondences [a], [o] and [u] can be practised with many place names in Spanish-speaking countries.
- Masculine adjectives that end in ‘o’ change to an ‘a’ when the person or animal being described is female.
- Adjectives ending in –e or -z can describe a female and male person or animal; they do not change.
Words to know
- está
- part of the verb 'estar' - 'to be, being' - meaning 'she, he, it is'
- adjective
- a word that gives information about a noun
- [a]
- pronounced as in 'casa'
- [o]
- pronounced as in 'dos'
- [u]
- pronounced as in 'universo'
Common mistakes
Adjectives ending in -e and -z change to -a when the person or animal described is female.
When an adjective ends in –e or -z , it can describe a female and male person or animal. It does not change.
For parents, carers and teachers
- During register routines, or during the day, use '¿Cómo está hoy?' regularly so pupils can revise adjectival agreement and vocabulary by saying how someone else is in the class. You could also ask '¿Está + adjective?' to revise use of 'sí' and 'no'.